The Point of It

In the narrative, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," the main character, Eddie, meets five people whom teach him a lesson. His first lesson is taught by Joseph Corvelzchik, also referred to as the "Blue Man". The lesson is "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate  one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind." Joseph wants Eddie to think that all life is precious. The point of it to me is that this would mean that no matter what your skin color, age, race, or sins are, God still accepts you. This also means to me that everyone should accept each other. In the story, when Eddie is young, he and his brother, Joe, lose their ball in the street. Everyone knows that a child's first instinct in a situation like that is to chase it. Joseph, however was coming right towards the ball in his car. Joseph must swerve out of the way to avoid hitting Eddie. While Eddie is perfectly ok, Joseph crashes his car and loses his life for Eddie. When Eddie hears of this in heaven, He asks Joseph, "Why should you have to die on a account of me? It ain't fair." Joseph explains to Eddie that, "Fairness, does not govern our life and death. If it did, no good person would die young." Eddie didn't understand that even though Joseph lost his life, he did it to save Eddie.  Eddie believes his life is waste when Joseph does not answer his question about the little girl involved with the accident. Joseph replies," No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."  All life is precious and is worth saving. All lives matter.